Yeah it’s all good man, I appreciate the banter. Now I wish there was an easy way to follow up on this and find out the conclusion.
lol thanks.
Do you have a non-facebook mirror?
I didn’t see anything saying that she had her hand on her hip ready to draw, but even if true, so what.
I don’t live in a state with these kind of gun laws, but in her state them’s the rules. Personally I think getting physical with someone in any way is a big escalation, it’s literally a use of force. Force should be reasonably appropriate and somewhat equal, i.e. you don’t get to shoot someone for bumping into you at the store (or shoot someone who is not or is no longer a threat, possibly like this situation). You might say the guy had no weapons and simply pushed her, but the fact remains that she returned his force with none. It could have been the case that she got pushed over and then the guy goes to kick or stomp her in which case I think shooting is appropriate. I think the brandishing charge is probably bullshit, because it doesn’t seem like she was waving around the gun to intimidate or threaten someone. It sounds like she took out the gun to use it during a physical altercation and then didn’t when she realized it was not necessary.
No need to swap genders or substitute ideologically different people, I’m cool with a legally-carried gun being pulled during a defensive physical fight every time. You said that insulting someone is an inherently aggressive action, and sure I’ll mostly agree, but the big difference is that it’s legal. Insults are fist amendment protected speech most of the time, pushing someone is battery.
Ah I missed that detail, thanks for the clarification. I disagree about the approaching part, anyone can approach anyone in public. Approaching isn’t an aggressive action, especially not like pushing someone is. He said words, she got closer and said words, he got physical, she almost got physical back. I hope she beats the rap.
This whole thing sounds stupid to me because they’re arguing over whether deadly force was warranted or not. She never actually shot the guy so there was no deadly force! The tl;dr version is:
The guy physically assaulted her. Sure we can argue if a shove with no weapons is enough to warrant being shot to death, but that’s not what happened so who cares. Sounds like she did absolutely nothing wrong unless she wasn’t allowed to have the gun or something.
Murder affects people though.
Every now and then I would go to MTV’s site to look at their schedule of shows, and it’s depressingly funny how unrelated to music it is. It’s all just reality show slop. I am SO GLAD that music videos never died along with MTV and are still being produced and shown on Youtube.
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The whole thing is this 2 second clip: https://youtu.be/5T8dLUD_MJA?t=53